This is my latest gadget (the cover, not the device itself). It's not some invention or anything, I imagined it in a different way and this is specifically for a laptop, not a phone, but a few days ago I couldn't resist and decided to try it out. Although today's phones don't allow this anymore, you see. You see that this way part of the screen is taken up, I don't think it's a problem, it turned out that it's not a problem either that it's glued to the touch screen. So far, there's no malfunction or anything else. In short, it works. After I got used to the appearance of my phone's screen.

This phone is not even a year old, but anyway, I don't sell or give away my phones, so it's not a problem that I changed its appearance in some way.

I'm not paranoid in principle, if I were, I wouldn't have Facebook on my phone, for example. But I'm almost certain that such applications use more than just the microphones on phones. How else would they even read thoughts (as I've told you, it's happened to me, and other people have reported this same phenomenon too).
And the thought that someone on the other end could be watching me while I'm browsing on my phone, being in any appearance, is quite unacceptable.

I recently disabled the microphone on this app, as well as the Google microphone, albeit amidst protests from the phone: "some functionality may not work properly if you disable the microphone". I'm probably the last person who cares about that. Or about the functionality of FB. I also don't care about the selfie camera on my phone because I don't take selfies, I'm really bad at it. And I could have just permanently covered that camera with something instead of doing other things, but then I remembered that I still need it sometimes - like when a financial app asks me to verify my identity as a routine check. So there was no way I could just stick something on top.

I've told you before what I liked most about my old Huawei, in fact maybe the only thing - it was the hidden selfie camera. It was hidden inside the phone, and when I needed to use it, it popped out from inside its body. So, there was no technological "eye" on the screen watching me the whole time I was using it or not. Of course, Chinese technology has its bad reputation for stealing data in any other way, here there was just one small flaw in the design of this device, released on a foreign market, probably for the sole purpose of collecting information anyway (which is probably the purpose of all other devices too.)
I missed that hidden camera in the beginning, too, really. Besides, my new phone came with its own annoying attempts at what not (entering people's personal space) - a lot of pre-installed apps, like LinkedIn, Netflix, and many others, as well as forced installation with the initial activation of several games and a bunch of other crap that I don't need.

Sometimes I wonder how people were monitored and observed in the past, when there was no technology. Can you tell me how? Because I can't remember. And also - who does it and why does it? I'm far from thinking that I'm so important that someone would monitor me, but in the end, it's already been proven that no human life is important. The only interest is whether this person can be tricked into paying some money for something - either to buy a product, or to be blackmailed, or to be scammed.

But God, such a complex technology, just for that!

And remember this from me, in the future, the cameras on phones will be probably placed in the middle of the screen. They will probably even cover the entire screen, so that they cannot be covered or disabled in any way. Just like it happened with removing the battery, to deactivate the phone - this is no longer possible.

But I say again: such complex technologies, such progress, and what for!

Don't you see the contradictions in all this?🤔

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.

Personally, I am a sensitive soul with a strong sense of justice.
Traveling and photography are my greatest passions.
Sounds trivial to you?
No, it's not trivial. Because I still love to travel to not so famous destinations.🗺️
Of course, the current situation does not allow me to do this, but I still find a way to satisfy my hunger for knowledge, new places, beauty and art.
Sometimes you can find the most amazing things even in the backyard of your house.😊🧐🧭|